Improved bedstead and quilting-fkame



JOHN PARK, OF JOLIET, ILLINOIS.

Letters Patent No. 81,936, dated September 8, 1868.

IMPROVED BEDSTEAD AND QUILTING-FRAME.

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TO ALL WI-IOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it knowuthat I, JOHN PARK, of Joliet, in the county of Will, and State of Illinois, have invented cer- ',tain new and useful Improvements inl Combined Clothes-Horse,Cot-Beilstead, and Quilting-Frame; and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the 5 accompanying drawings, and the letters of reference marked thereon. l

In the `annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, A represents a suitable shaft or rod, pro, vided with journals at the ends thereof, which have bearings in the movable cross-legs B B, as shown. '.Ehe Legs are held on the shaft A by means of a small pin or key passing through the ends of ,said shaft, as shown in. the drawings.

One of the legs, B, at each end of this device, is provided, or has a ratchet-bar, C, secureif to it, and the other legs, B, have a pawl or brace, D, pivoted to them, as shown, for the purpose of holding the legs at any desired angle with each other, and the tops thereof at any distance apart.

The braces D D catch in the ratchet-bars C C, as is fully shown, and are thereby held.

v K K represent rollers, which are adjusted in the tops of thelegs B B, and provided with a series of buttons, fj; to or by which the canvas of a cot may be readily attached. At one end of each of the rollers, K K, I secure a ratchet-wheel, h, and to the leg B next to it, a catch orpawl, y, which catches in said ratchet-wheel. The pawl is held firmly in place by means of the springj. The rollers are held fromV turning backward by means of the ratchet-wheel h and paw] g.

This device is very convenientfor use as a quiltingframe, as the material may be wound up on one ofthe rollers, while one side is being quilted, and then let off and wound up on the other as may be required, or when not required for use as quilting-frame or bed-cot, it may equally as Well be used for a clothes-horse.

It will be seen that by this device I can adjust the cot for a double or single bed, as may be desired.

Having thus fully described my invention, -what I claim as new, isi The arrangement of the shaft A, legs B B B B, with their pawl D and rack-bar C, and the rollers K K,- with Vtheir ratchets z and spring-pawIs g, the whole combined, adjusted, and operating as herein set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing, I have hereunto set my hand, this 24th day oi' February, 1868.

JOHN PARK.

Witnesses:

Guo. H. WARD, SAMUEL PARK. 

